Site Reliability Engineer (AWS)

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Contribute to shaping the future of global technology by maintaining and enhancing platforms across our cloud technology stack, focused on operational resilience and innovation.

We are seeking a highly skilled AWS Site Reliability Engineer to play a key role in our digital transformation journey. This is an exceptional opportunity to contribute to shaping the future of our global technology landscape.

As an SRE Engineer, you will become a key member of our Global Support team, working alongside a dedicated group of professionals to maintain and enhance platforms and applications across our cloud technology stack. In this role, you will leverage your technical expertise to strengthen operational resilience, optimise performance, and drive innovation, ultimately delivering greater business value through technology.

What you’ll be doing:

  • Supporting applications running on production cloud environments (AWS and Azure)
  • Troubleshooting platform and application issues at the AWS/Azure layer
  • Handling BAU requests, including S3 bucket management, access control, and capacity increases
  • Optimising processes and automation to improve efficiency
  • Patching and maintaining serverless platforms on a regular basis
  • Managing OpenShift ROSA Kubernetes clusters
  • Maintaining Domino Kubernetes platform operations
  • Overseeing Asset Management’s Data platform maintenance and reliability

Who we’re looking for:

  • Proven experience in AWS or Azure platform engineering and support
  • Strong expertise in container orchestration, particularly Kubernetes environments
  • Deep knowledge of cloud services (AWS or Azure), including IAM, compute, serverless, storage, and networking
  • Practical understanding of API and container deployment patterns
  • Hands-on experience with Terraform for infrastructure-as-code management
  • Familiarity with production release processes and ITIL-based change management (e.g., ServiceNow)
  • Proficiency in monitoring, logging, cost optimisation, and container image management
  • Solid grasp of networking fundamentals (DNS, load balancing, SSL, TCP/IP) and scripting skills in Bash or Python

Whatever your role, we reward performance and behaviour with a package that looks after all the things that are important to you. Here are some of the benefits we offer:

  • The opportunity to participate in our annual, performance -related bonus plan and valuable share schemes
  • Generous pension contribution
  • Life assurance
  • Healthcare Plan (permanent employees only)
  • At least 25 days holiday, plus public holidays, 26 days after 2 years’ service. There’s also the option to buy and sell holiday
  • Competitive family leave
  • Participate in our electric car scheme, which offers employees the option to hire a brand-new electric car through tax efficient salary sacrifice (permanent employees only)
  • There are the many discounts we offer – both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online
  • In 2023, some of our workspaces were redesigned. Our offices are great spaces to connect and collaborate and have your wellbeing at the heart

At L&G, we believe it's possible to generate positive returns today while helping to build a better future for all. 

If you join us, you’ll be part of a welcoming, inclusive culture, with opportunities to collaborate with people of diverse backgrounds, views, and experiences. Guided by leaders with integrity who care about your future and wellbeing. Empowered through initiatives which support people to develop their careers and excel.

We care passionately about outcomes rather than attendance and are therefore open to discussing all kinds of flexible working options including part-time, term-time and job shares. Although some roles have limited flexibility due to customer demand, we accommodate requests when we can. 

It doesn’t matter if you don’t meet every single criterion in this advert. Instead, think about what you excel at and what else you can bring in terms of strengths, potential and connection to our purpose. 

Perks & Benefits Extracted with AI

  • Health Insurance: Healthcare Plan (permanent employees only).
  • Employee discounts: There are the many discounts we offer – both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online.
  • Paid Parental Leave: Competitive family leave.

Legal & General, established in 1836, is a top UK financial services provider offering life insurance, pensions, investments, and retirement plans to over nine million customers, promoting financial security and a positive future.

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